Four Kansas counties bear the names of leaders in the battle to preserve slavery while a Kansas school district has the name ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp.

I had forgotten about the Ku Klux Klan,” said Ann Downing Schmidt, The Colorado Statesman’s Washington, D.C., correspondent.

Growing up in New Jersey, I lived 45 minutes away from the Gates of Hell. Situated by the Clifton train station and next to a major supermarket, the Gates of Hell is a decrepit, oversized water drain ...

Pres. Donald Trump is imposing a right-wing political ideology and practice that increasingly resembles what Christ Hedges has dubbed “Christian fascism.” Hedges’ book, American Fascists: The ...

The new Brownsville Library opened on Aug. 21 The 8,000-square-foot library, café space, with a large multi-use space for senior activities, children's programs, classes and events The library also ...

In 1925, Ku Klux Klan parade day in Washington D.C. was held in August. And that day, 100 years ago this month, was so hot and sticky it was reported that over 100 marchers and viewers passed out from ...

On the big hill west of town they met on hot summer nights beneath a wooden cross illuminated with electric bulbs. Purists might have said the cross should have been flaming, but at least there were ...

Book review writer Richard Sisk on “Grant’s Enforcer” by Guy Gugliotta, Vietnam-era Navy swiftboat veteran and award-winning former reporter for The Washington Post, the Miami Herald and United Press ...

A 136-page pamphlet titled “Papers Read at the Meeting of Grand Dragons, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan At Their First Annual Meeting held at Asheville, North Carolina, July 1923.” The pamphlet is ...